LAST UPDATED: [September 25, 2025]
[Global Investigative Journalism Network Inc.] “[GIJN],” “we,” or “us”) wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect from or about you through:
- https://gijn.org/ and any other GIJN-operated website from which you are accessing this Policy (the “Websites”);
- The application made available by us for use on or through mobile devices (the “App”);
- Our online trainings and activities;
- Our social media pages located at [URL] (collectively, our “Social Media Pages”);
and - HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you that link to this Policy or other communications with you.
We refer to GIJN’s Websites, App, Social Media Pages, and emails as the “Services.”
GIJN collects a minimum amount of personal information when someone uses its services, including: GIJN’s website at https://gijn.org/ and any other GIJN-operated website from which you are accessing this policy, participation at events and training activities organized by GIJN, fellowships, newsletter subscriptions, members data, donations, support emails, network groups, surveys, and our social media pages linked at https://gijn.org/. The information collected is only the one required for GIJN to be able to support and better serve its users.
GIJN does not sell personal information. GIJN may share data with reputable third parties who provide online services used by GIJN to provide services to its users. GIJN may also share aggregated data to its donors and in special reports, and in rare cases with its legal adviser bound by confidentiality.
What data do we collect?
Among the types of personal data that GIJN collects by itself or through third parties who provide services used by GIJN are:
- Personal identification information (First name, Last Name, Country, Email Address, Username and password, account name, account number, IP address, or device identifiers and information) you provide when you enter it via our services, or you decide to give it to us.
- Demographic Information, including [city, state, zip code, or other similar information;]
- Electronic Network Activity Information – We may collect information related to your electronic network activity, such as your browsing history, information about how you use the Services, information about your device;
- Payment Information, including [details about your method of payment and billing address when you provide your payment information to us];
- Communications and other information you provide us, such as [when you choose to contact us or engage with our Services, interact with our chatbot, respond to surveys, or otherwise communicate with us];
- Inferences – We may also collect inferences drawn from the other information described above.
How do we collect your data?
You directly provide GIJN with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:
- Subscribe to GIJN’s newsletters, emails, donate to us.
- Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
- Register online to participate at a GIJN event (conference, webinar, training).
- Get support through our help desk.
- Voluntarily complete survey or provide feedback to GIJN.
- Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
In addition to the information we receive from you, we may also receive the categories of information described above from other sources including from other users of the Services (such as when they purchase a gift article or subscription for you), advertising partners, co-sponsors, internet service providers, data analytics providers, operating systems andplatforms, social networks, and publicly available sources. For example, if you access any social media or similar services through our Services to login or to share information with others, we may collect information from these third party services.
How will we use your data?
GIJN collects your data so that we can:
- Coordinate logistics related to our activities.
- Communicate with members from the community and participants of our activities.
- Send newsletters and share information about our services, resources and activities.
- Provide better services to our community.
- Legal and administrative purposes, including verification of information to prevent fraud or other criminal activities.
- Provide promotional information about the organization.
- To provide our services’ functionality to you, such as arranging access to your registered account, and providing you with related services and support.
- To complete your transactions, including processing your subscriptions, donations, or orders, and verifying your information.
- To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, for example, when you send us questions, suggestions, tips, or complaints, or requests for information about our Services.
- To send administrative information to you, such as changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
- To send you our newsletter or other marketing communications, with information about our services, new topics or series, and other updates about our organization.
- To analyze or predict our users’ preferences to understand how our digital content is used and consumed.
- To better understand your interests and preferences, so that we can personalize our interactions with you and provide you with information or offers tailored to your interests.
- To accomplish our business purposes, including:
- For data analysis, for example, to improve the efficiency of our Services;
- For audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and to address legal, regulatory, or contractual requirements;
- For fraud prevention and fraud security monitoring purposes, for example, to detect and prevent cyberattacks or attempts to commit identity theft;
- For developing added content and services;
- For enhancing, improving, repairing, maintaining, or modifying our current content and services;
- For determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, so that we can adapt our campaigns to the needs and interests of our users; and
- For operating and expanding our business activities, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of most interest to our users so we can focus our energies on meeting our users’ interests.
Personal information provided to or collected by us from our users will never be sold. We may disclose personal information to third party providers connected to services we over:
- Our service providers: subcontractors necessary to provide the service or internet service providers (applications, administrative services, payment processing companies). We can not assume liability for data protection breaches by our third-party service providers.
We are careful with the selection of the third-party service providers and check their track record, before engaging with their services. In the case of third party service providers, we only provide the required information for them to provide the service.
- If we, or substantially all our assets, are acquired by one or more third parties as a result of an acquisition, merger, sale, reorganization, consolidation, liquidation, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy, personal information may be one of the transferred assets.
- In rare cases, when required for the service, we may provide information to legal and other advisers bound by confidentiality. We may disclose your information to comply with applicable laws, including to respond to law enforcement; to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and to stop any activity that we consider illegal, unethical, or legally actionable.
- We may share information for other purposes to which you consent.
- When you post on our websites, this may include information shared on message boards, chat, profile pages, blogs, and other services to which you are able to post information and content (including, without limitation, our Social Media Pages). Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to other users and the general public.
How do we store your data?
GIJN will securely store the personal data, and will keep it as long as it is necessary to ensure the delivery and quality of our services. Protecting your information is a priority forus and we seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect the security and integrity of all information collected via our Services. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.
Marketing
- Personal data may be converted into aggregated data for reports to donors, organization reports, promotional publications so it will no longer be considered personal data. The data will be reflected as statistical or aggregated data in ways it ensures that the user is not identified. Only with the authorization of the user, GIJN may provide individual testimonials, and information about the user experience of an individual user in such reports. Aggregated or de-identified data that we do not attempt to reidentify is not subject to this Policy.
What are your data protection rights?
GIJN would like to make sure you are fully aware of all your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request GIJN for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that GIJN corrects any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request GIJN to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that GIJN erases your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that GIJN restricts the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to GIJN’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that GIJN transfers the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: hello@gijn.org
Or write to us:
Global Investigative Journalism Network
2336 Wisconsin Ave NW, P.O Box 32322
Washington DC, 20007
United States
Cookies
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.
For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
How do we use cookies?
GIJN uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:
- Understanding how you use our website such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other traffic data.
- Security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, analytics, and to personalize your experience.
- We also gather statistical information using services such as Google Analytics about use of the Services in order to continually improve their design and functionality, understand how they are used, and assist us with resolving questions regarding them. For more information on how Google Analytics collects and stores information, please see https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
- These technologies may be used to serve relevant ads based on your activities on and off the Services as well as for other related purposes including avoiding showing you duplicative ads and to track the effectiveness of advertising.]
What types of cookies do we use?
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:
- Functionality – GIJN uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
- Audience analytics – GIJN uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information aboutyour browser. GIJN uses this information to measure its audience interaction with its content. We do not store any personally identifiable information for these purposes.
How to manage cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.
Privacy policies of other websites
GIJN’s website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website and services, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.
Changes to our privacy policy
GIJN keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. The “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this Policy indicates when this Policy was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services. You understand and agree that you will be deemed to have accepted the updated Privacy Policy if you continue to use the Services after the new Policy takes effect.
YOUR CHOICES
Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information:
- Receiving marketing-related emails from us. If you no longer want to receive marketing related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt out by: selecting the unsubscribe option on our newsletter or sending an email to hello@gijn.org.
- Data Rights. There might be laws that afford you rights to access, delete, or correct your personal information. Please contact us if you would like to request information about the rights available to you.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies. You may be able to refuse or disable cookies by adjusting your web browser settings. Because each web browser is different, please consult the instructions provided by your web browser (typically in the “help” section). If you choose to refuse, disable, or delete these technologies, some of our Services’ functionality may no longer be available to you.
- Do-Not-Track. Some web browsers have a “Do Not Track” preference that transmits a “Do Not Track” header to the websites you visit with information indicating that you do not want your activity to be tracked. We currently do not respond to browser “DoNot Track” signals, as there is no standard for how online services should respond to such signals. As standards develop, we may develop policies for responding to do-not-track signals that we will describe in this Policy. Your California Rights: You may request to opt-out of the sharing of personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.
We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.
USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS
The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of [thirteen (13)], and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under 13.
Removal of Content for California Minors
Pursuant to California Business & Professions Code section 22581, if you are a resident of California, under 18, and a registered user of the Services, you may ask us to remove content or information that you have posted to the Services by writing to hello@gijn.org We will make reasonable efforts to remove the post from public view, but please note that your request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information, as, for example, some of your content may have been reposted by another user.
INTERNATIONAL USERS
GIJN is registered in the United States. Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in the United States and any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country.
SENSITIVE INFORMATION
Unless we request it, we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, or criminal background) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.
THIRD PARTY PAYMENT SERVICE
The Services may provide functionality allowing you to make payments using third-party payment services with which you have created your own account. When you use such a service to make a payment to us, your Personal Information will be collected by such third party and not by us and will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy, rather than thisPrivacy Policy. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party’s collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about GIJN’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Email us at: hello@gijn.org
Or write to us at:
Global Investigative Journalism Network
2336 Wisconsin Ave NW, P.O Box 32322
Washington DC, 20007
United States
Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that GIJN has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the relevant supervisory authority. We would still appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns directly, before you do so.
Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your emails to us.